Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
Tailor your resume to this Fundraising Manager role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against The Access Project's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Fundraising Manager role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against The Access Project's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Fundraising Manager posting at The Access Project — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Fundraising Manager posting at The Access Project — free, in seconds.
About the Role
The Fundraising Manager will play a key role within the Partnerships department, working with the Director, Head of Fundraising, and a small team to deliver a multi-year fundraising strategy. This role will have a strategic focus on Trusts & Foundations and Individual Giving, with line management of a senior coordinator. The post will ensure a sustainable and diverse funding base to support the organisation's mission of helping young people into top universities and achieving social mobility.
Responsibilities
- Deliver income targets for Trusts & Foundations and Individual Giving, contributing to the overall fundraising strategy.
- Manage relationships with existing funders, ensuring renewals and growth, while proactively identifying new opportunities.
- Lead the development and submission of compelling funding applications, appeals, and donor communications.
- Support cultivation and stewardship of Trusts & Foundation and individual donors, including through tailored communications and donor engagement activities.
- Maintain accurate donor pipelines and stewardship plans, ensuring timely and high-quality reporting.
- Ensure all funders and donors receive excellent stewardship, including the preparation of high-quality progress reports.
- Work with the Head of Fundraising, the Director and CEO to plan and deliver donor events and activities.
- Monitor performance against fundraising targets and provide regular updates and forecasts to the Head of Fundraising.
- Line manage, and develop the Senior Fundraising Coordinator, setting clear objectives and providing coaching and professional development opportunities.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture that is aligned with organisational values.
- Support cross-team working with colleagues in Partnerships, Communications, and Programme Delivery to maximise opportunities.
- Ensure fundraising activity is compliant with the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Practice, The Access Project’s Fundraising Policy and GDPR.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records on the CRM system, championing data-informed approaches to fundraising.
- Contribute to the development and refinement of fundraising systems, processes, and ways of working.
- Undertake any other responsibilities reasonably deemed necessary by the line manager or Director.
Requirements
- Commitment to the mission of The Access Project and tackling educational inequality.
- Experience to meet The Access Project Leadership capabilities at Manager Level and to The Access Project behaviours and values.
- Proven experience of securing six-figure grants from Trusts & Foundations.
- Experience in delivering income growth across Individual Giving.
- Strong written communication skills, with the ability to draft persuasive funding proposals and donor materials.
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with donors and stakeholders.
- Experience line managing, coaching, or mentoring colleagues.
- Knowledge of the UK fundraising landscape and regulatory environment.
- Experience in both Trusts & Foundations and Individual Giving.
- Experience working within the education or youth sectors.
- Familiarity with fundraising databases (e.g. Salesforce) and CRM best practice.
- Knowledge of trends in philanthropy and individual giving.
- Collaborative team player who values inclusion and diversity.
- Organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities.
- Self-motivated with a proactive, solutions-focused approach.
- Professional, credible, and confident in engaging with external stakeholders.
- Must disclose anything listed in their criminal record, with the exception of protected cautions and convictions, as the role involves access to children.
- Will be subject to a DBS check.
Skills
- Fundraising strategy
- Relationship management
- Grant writing
- Donor cultivation and stewardship
- Reporting
- Team management
- Coaching
- Professional development
- Cross-team collaboration
- Compliance
- CRM systems
- Data-informed fundraising
- Process improvement
Location
- London / Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full Time
- 37.5 hours per week
Experience Level
- Manager Level
Salary/Compensations
- £33,423 (plus £3,000 London Weighting if home-based in London)
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave p.a. (pro rata) plus Bank Holidays and 3-5 Winter closure days.
- PerkBox – online shopping discounts, gym memberships, holidays, wellbeing support.
- Employee Assistance Programme, a 24-hour helpline for staff.
- Online Medical assistance – access 24/7 to a qualified GP within minutes, with referrals and prescriptions available same-day.
- Interest-free travelcard loans.
- Cyclescheme loans.
- 2 paid Volunteering Days.
- 1 paid Wellbeing Day.
- Employer’s pensions contributions (3%).
- Learning and Development opportunities.
- Staff Mentoring scheme.
- Flexible working arrangements.
About the Company
- Our mission is to support students from under-resourced backgrounds to access top universities through a unique programme of mentoring, skills coaching, and tuition.
- Students enrolled on our programme receive expert support from our University Access Officers, mentors embedded in schools to guide pupils through their education options, university applications and student life topics such as navigating student finance.
- People who work at The Access Project are motivated by the desire to create a fairer society.
- We all play an active part in achieving the mission to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds access top universities.
- At The Access Project, we’re a friendly, collaborative, supportive and inclusive team, with passionate people working together in Delivery, Sales and Partnerships, Strategy, Finance and Operations to achieve our mission.
- Our values include Empowerment, Courage, Impact, Inclusion, and Ownership.
Equal Opportunity
- The Access Project aspires to represent the diversity of communities across the UK at all levels of the organisation and proactively takes steps to support this.
- We are committed to creating a culture where the experiences and voices of people from marginalised backgrounds are listened to and valued; where their skills are appreciated; and where their talents are nurtured and encouraged.
- The Access Project is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds.
- If you believe you have most of the skills to fulfil the role we encourage you to apply.
- There is under-representation of people who are Black, Asian or people from ethnic minority backgrounds, disabled, care-experienced, from low socio-economic backgrounds, and who are LGBTQIA+ amongst staff.
- We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience in reference to our mission.
- We are proud to be a Level 1 Disability Confident employer.
- If you require any reasonable adjustments please contact us.